Notes on building tours, tools and systems in Salzburg, plus a travel archive from 2017 to 2020.https://gerhardreus.com/enThu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gerhardreus.com/site-inventory-was-wrong/https://gerhardreus.com/site-inventory-was-wrong/I had a careful written inventory of this site before migrating it. Fetching every URL instead found 13 posts rather than 10, and 23 images broken for years.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsystemswordpressweb-developmentseohttps://gerhardreus.com/action-is-black-and-white/https://gerhardreus.com/action-is-black-and-white/A work session only counts when something tangible changed. Why acting early beats sitting on a decision until it gets heavy.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTsystemsfocusdecision-makinghttps://gerhardreus.com/momentum-in-projects/https://gerhardreus.com/momentum-in-projects/Building moves in waves of slow preparation and sudden execution. Competence flattens the waves by making preparation leaner and decisions stick.Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTsystemsbuildingfocusweb-developmenthttps://gerhardreus.com/killing-your-darlings/https://gerhardreus.com/killing-your-darlings/Written while cancelling a domain: why languages, music and half the side projects had to go so Salzburg could get everything.Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTfocusminimalismbuildinghttps://gerhardreus.com/how-to-keep-yourself-busy-when-home-alone/https://gerhardreus.com/how-to-keep-yourself-busy-when-home-alone/Filling time alone at home: finding a purpose, cold showers and exercise, meditation, owning less, and dropping the hobbies that were never going anywhere.Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTpurposeminimalismfocushttps://gerhardreus.com/why-you-should-always-be-grateful/https://gerhardreus.com/why-you-should-always-be-grateful/A 2020 trip through Central Asia and India that ended in a Varanasi infection, a hospital and a lockdown, and why gratitude is a decision.Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTgratitudetravelindiahttps://gerhardreus.com/what-are-free-walking-tours/https://gerhardreus.com/what-are-free-walking-tours/How tip-based walking tours actually work, and why a donation-run hostel on the Camino and years of Couchsurfing led to starting one in Salzburg.Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTwalking-tourstour-guidingsalzburgcouchsurfinghttps://gerhardreus.com/find-couchsurfing-host/https://gerhardreus.com/find-couchsurfing-host/How to actually get accepted on Couchsurfing: host first, write a profile worth reading, choose carefully, and show you read theirs.Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTcouchsurfingtravelbudget-travelhttps://gerhardreus.com/salzburg-cards/https://gerhardreus.com/salzburg-cards/A one-day route built around the Salzburg Card: the Untersberg cable car first, then Hellbrunn, the old town museums and the fortress at sunset.Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMTsalzburgtourismtravelhttps://gerhardreus.com/budget-travel/https://gerhardreus.com/budget-travel/How travel stayed cheap in 2017: cut spending at home, host instead of paying for beds, move in short hops, cook rather than eat out, and share the ride.Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMTbudget-traveltravelhitchhikingcouchsurfinghttps://gerhardreus.com/wild-camping-norway/https://gerhardreus.com/wild-camping-norway/Two weeks across Norway with someone he had known sixteen hours: oatmeal, a tent, hitchhiking, and camping under the freedom-to-roam law.Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMTnorwaycampingtravelhitchhikinghttps://gerhardreus.com/off-the-beaten-path-salzburg/https://gerhardreus.com/off-the-beaten-path-salzburg/Three day trips from Salzburg by bus or train: the Gaisberg with four route options, Fuschlsee for walking and swimming, and the Bluntautal valley near Golling.Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMTsalzburghikingtravelhttps://gerhardreus.com/camino-de-santiago-addictive/https://gerhardreus.com/camino-de-santiago-addictive/Solitude with nobody to blame, walking as forced meditation, and the flat feeling of reaching Finisterre with nowhere left to go.Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTcamino-de-santiagotravelpurposehttps://gerhardreus.com/couchsurfing-reasons/https://gerhardreus.com/couchsurfing-reasons/Reasons for hosting strangers, told through the guests: a leather suitcase, an animator who fixed a logo in two hours, friends who met me at the airport.Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTcouchsurfingsalzburgtravel